Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1887-01-21

see female loneliness of a typical kind.
Cincinnati women have perfect COM
plexions. In accounting for the unusual
fairness clubman there said: ut may
be that our proximity to Kentucky has
something to do with the matter. You
see, Covington is only across the river,
and we are enabled to import handsome
women without much trouble. But
Ohio is not indebted to Kentucky alone
for the beauty of her women. She is
the eldest of what were once termed
the new Western States Some of the
best and bluest of New England blood
came here in early days. This has been
improved from year to year until you
see the result before you
1t is certainly wonderful how Cincin-
natl women can keep or preserve such
clear and brilliant compilations in such q
city. The rolling mills and factories SO
fill the air with black smoke that even
the sun is obscured. The SCOT from the
soft-coal smoke finds its way into the
houses through every open window and
door. The waiter at your hotel covers
up the mouth of your bottle in order to
keep out this all-peryading SCOT. Ladies
when out upon the street, or even at
home, are obliged to exercise great care
W aNolu touNAlHss thCII hdhuo VI hdud-
kerchiefs. The presence of big black
smooth on a woman face is the com
monest kind of sight, but is not con-
ducive to personal beauty.
The merits of st. Louis and Chicago
women have been too widely discussed to
need further notice. Still it must be ad-
mitted that, while the st. Louis girls are
fairer, the Chicago girls are more stylish
and more vivacious. One need remain
in Chicago hardly week to discover
this fact. Drive along Prairie avenue,
or through the parks, or out on the
boulevards any afternoon and you will
see the characteristics of New York So
ciety reproduced almost exactly. Yon-
der speed the same carriages, with the
same bobtailed, English looking horses
and still more English looking coachmen
and footmen We're it not for the I'M
usual width of the streets, the vista of
the lake, dotted with sail, and the
spaciousness of the grounds of private
residences. you might think that you
were in New York Even the faces in
the coaches are familiar. Chicago APP
proaches nearer to New York in Its gen
eral features than any other city in the
country.
In San Francisco the men of great for
tunes are those who came to California
during the mining excitement without a
cent : Yankees, Irishmen, Germans,
Spaniards, Chinese, and Englishmen.
Fortune smiled upon them, and they have
adorned Mob Hill with splendid palaces,
and have set up great establishments with
retinues of servants. These men, many
of whose ancestors were ignorant, stupid
laborers, are now playing the role of the
caipuior VulOa rity
ness, however, cannot be hidden by silk
and broadcloth There is, nevertheless,
in San Francisco circle of society into
which these people cannot enter. 1t is
made up of men and women of refine
ment and culture who do not believe in
an aristocracy of wealth.
The California girl of the average type
is not pretty The main difficulty with
which the women of the Pacific slope
must contend is the seeming impossible
ty of bringing out or preserving good
complexion. The fierce winds which
blow from the Pacific or from the noun
tains, combined with naturally dry at
mosphere are enough to ruin the best of
compilations in short time. For this
reason the California girl resorts to the
use of paints and powders. If she can't
produce good complexion by natural
means she will by artificial aids. Stroll
down Market or Montgomery street any
afternoon and you will observe that
eight out of every ten women you meet
have painted cheeks. A popular drug
gist said that he had 10 different pre-
parations for the face in stock in his
store.
But although California girls face
may be plain, her figure is divine. No
matter where you go you will always
find women with beautiful forms. One
would think that the State would be-
come a refuge for women who complain
of being scrawny and angular. A two
years residence there makes marvellous
change in the outlines of the figure. Cal
ifornia girls are even more vivacious than
those of Chicago They are witty, quick
at repartee, and fond of adventure. Mer-
ry-hearted and jolly, they are never vul-
gar. They use good, vigorous English,
and are not averse to slang. There is
frankness of manner about some of them
which would shock some of their eastern
sisters.
Wine is so cheap throughout the
State that nearly all women in San Fran
cisco drink it, and when occasion de-
mands even stronger liquids. Cham
payne flows as freely as water at all
kinds of parties, and the dinner table is
never without it. In travelling the ladies
invariably carry with them small pock-
ct flask containing whisky or brandy
They are not ashamed Of it either. The
first morning after leaving San Francis
CO by the Southern Pacific Railroad the
tourists arose quite early in order to see
the famous Yehichipa loop" A pretty
girl belonging to one of the first families
in San Francisco came out on the plat
form of the car where several people
were standing and seated herself upon
one of the steps. By and by she opened
the little bag and took out a flask
with a silver top. Deity unscrewing
the stopper, she placed the flask of whis-
ky to her lips and drank swallow with
out the slightest hesitation.
"Gadp exclaimed one of the men.
Blamed if / don't like the frankness of
the girl. Instead of sneaking off in
corner, she takes drink before us all"
The California girls feet are shaped
like chemists spatula, very long and
very narrow. Eastern people are apt to
laugh outright when they see those
queer-shaped boots for the first time. A
long, slim foot cannot, by any standard,
be considered beautiful. 1t does not
look as though it was made for use or
ornament. 1t is disappointing. The
head of family soberly said that his
children, born in Maine, had Maine feet,
broad and ample, while those born in
San Francisco had the genuine Califor-
MIA foot, long and narrow. Would it
not be good plan for some scientist to
study into the matter and determine why
this is so?-N y World
Handmade envelopes cost originally
8 cents each. The envelope-making
machine now turns them out SO that
thousand are sold for so cents.